The Oxford Book of American Essays

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life to Madame Brillon, of Passy Benjamin Franklin
3. The Whistle to Madame Brillon Benjamin Franklin
4. Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout
5. Consolation for the Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson
6. John Bull Washington Irving
7. The Mutability of Literature a Colloquy in Westminster Abbey Washington Irving
8. Kean’s Acting Richard Henry Dana
9. Gifts Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Uses of Great Men Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Buds and Bird-Voices Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. The Philosophy of Composition Edgar Allan Poe
13. Bread and the Newspaper Oliver Wendell Holmes
14. Walking Henry David Thoreau
15. On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners James Russell Lowell
16. Preface to "Leaves of Grass" 1855 Walt Whitman
17. Americanism in Literature Thomas Wentworth Higginson
18. Thackeray in America George William Curtis
19. Our March to Washington Theodore Winthrop Through the City
20. Calvin a Study of Character Charles Dudley Warner
21. Five American Contributions to Civilization Charles William Eliot
22. I Talk of Dreams W. D. Howells
23. An Idyl of the Honey-Bee John Burroughs
24. Cut-Off Copples’s Clarence King
25. The Théâtre Français Henry James
26. Theocritus on Cape Cod Hamilton Wright Mabie
27. Colonialism in the United States Henry Cabot Lodge
28. New York After Paris W. C. Brownell
29. The Tyranny of Things Edward Sandford Martin
30. Free Trade Vs. Protection in Literature Samuel Mcchord Crothers
31. Dante and the Bowery Theodore Roosevelt
32. The Revolt of the Unfit Nicholas Murray Butler
33. On Translating the Odes of Horace W. P. Trent

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